> It is said, conveniently enough mostly by software engineers, that building software is perhaps the most complex activity humans have ever undertaken.
Who says this? Because while I agree that some pieces of software are hugely complicated (writing a compiler, kernels, etc), I think it's massively overstating things to describe web development as the pinnacle of complexity. In fact I'd say it's a little insulting to doctors, physicists, engineers of equipment that get deployed into space, and so on.